Margery Kempe was born in 1373. She was apparently illiterate, and her book
was actually written by two amanuenses, the first an Englishman long
resident in Germany, and the second, a priest. The whole was then copied by
a scribe, Salthows. According to Meech, the linguistic patterns are those
of the priest, whose origin is unknown although he was resident in Lynn,
Norfolk. The language of the book is similar to Norfolk in the phonological
patterns but not so much in the morphology.